Quarantine lessons: Limits and possibilities of teaching performance in times of social isolation

Abstract

Social isolation, recently adopted as a result of COVID-19 pandemic, leads educational institutions, both public and private, to a reorganization regarding their practices, and consequently raises a discussion about the role of Education in society nowadays. In this scenario, it is relevant to analyze the determinations and conducts adopted in Brazil in the context of this crisis, as well as the assumptions that support such directions. Thus, based on teachers' narratives, this paper discusses two aspects of this issue. Initially, it analyzes the political field of school organization today. Then, it discusses the practices resulting from such guidelines, highlighting their consequences and also the possibilities, even if rudimentary and limited, of transgression, resistance and reinvention of the school in this moment and situation that we are currently living collectively.